PEC CH1 - DEF

Adjustable Speed Drive

Power conversion equipment that provides a means of adjusting the speed of an electric motor.

Variable Frequency Drive

One type of electronic adjustable speed drive that controls the rotational speed of an ac electric motor by controlling the frequency and voltage of the electrical power supplied to the motor.

Ampacity

The current, in amperes, that a conductor can carry continuously under the conditions of use without exceeding its temperature rating.

Appliance

Utilization equipment, generally other than industrial, that is normally built in standardized sizes or types and is installed or connected as a unit to perform one or more functions such as clothes washing, air conditioning, food mixing, deep frying, and so forth.

Services of Licensed Electrical Practitioner

For decisions and actions involving a knowledge of electrical engineering and/or training in electrical installations and practices, the services of a licensed electrical practitioner is required.

Approved

Equipment and materials; and installation, testing and commissioning methods, recognized as acceptable by local and international standards-setting organizations.

Government Regulatory Codes

An example of which are the Philippine Electrical Code, Part 1 and Part 2.

Askarel

A generic term for a group of nonflammable synthetic chlorinated hydrocarbons used as electrical insulating media.

Accessible (as applied to equipment)

Admitting close approach; not guarded by locked doors, elevation, or other effective means.

Accessible (as applied to wiring methods)

Capable of being removed or exposed without damaging the building structure or finish or not permanently closed in by the structure or finish of the building.

Associated Apparatus

Apparatus in which the circuits are not necessarily intrinsically safe themselves but that affects the energy in the intrinsically safe circuits and is relied on to maintain intrinsic safety.

Intrinsic Safety

A type of protection for use in the appropriate hazardous (classified) location.

Nonintrinsically Safe Apparatus

Electrical apparatus not so protected that shall not be used within a hazardous (classified) location.

FPN

A note providing additional information or clarification.

Electrical Engineering

The practice of designing and developing electrical systems and components.

Philippine Electrical Code

A set of regulations governing electrical installations in the Philippines.

Training Under a Licensed Practitioner

An apprentice shall undergo training under a person holding a valid certificate of registration and a valid professional license for the practice of electrical engineering.

Installation, Testing and Commissioning Methods

Methods recognized as acceptable by local and international standards-setting organizations.

Temperature Rating

The maximum temperature that a conductor can withstand without exceeding its ampacity.

Electrical Insulating Media

Materials used to prevent the flow of electric current.

Hazardous (Classified) Locations

Areas where flammable gases, vapors, or dusts may be present.

Field Inspections

Evaluations conducted on-site to determine service-value.

Compositional Types of Askarels

Different formulations of askarel used under various conditions.

Capable

of being removed or exposed without damaging the building structure or finish or not permanently closed in by the structure or finish of the building.

Electrical apparatus

not so protected that shall not be used within a hazardous (classified) location.

FPN No. 1

Associated apparatus has identified intrinsically safe connections for intrinsically safe apparatus and also may have connections for nonintrinsically safe apparatus.

Accessible, Readily (Readily Accessible)

Capable of being reached quickly for operation, renewal, or inspections without requiring those to whom ready access is requisite to take actions such as to use tools (other than keys), to climb over or under, to remove obstacles or to resort to portable ladders, and so forth.

FPN No. 2

An example of associated apparatus is an intrinsic safety barrier, which is a network designed to limit the energy (voltage and current) available to the protected circuit in the hazardous (classified) location, under specified fault conditions.

FPN

Use of keys is a common practice under controlled or supervised conditions and a common alternative to the ready access requirements under such supervised conditions as provided elsewhere in the PEC.

"ASSOCIATE"

means part, and affects energy in another place.

Branch Circuit, General-Purpose

A branch circuit that supplies two or more receptacles or outlets for lighting and appliances.

Branch Circuit, Individual

A branch circuit that supplies only one utilization equipment.

Associated Nonincendive Field Wiring Apparatus

[as applied to Hazardous (Classified) Locations]. Apparatus in which the circuits are not necessarily nonincendive themselves but that affect the energy in nonincendive field wiring circuits and are relied upon to maintain nonincendive energy levels.

Branch Circuit, Multiwire

A branch circuit that consists of two or more ungrounded conductors that have a voltage between them, and a grounded conductor that has equal voltage between it and each ungrounded conductor of the circuit.

Building

A structure that stands alone or that is separated from adjoining structures by fire walls.

FPN

Associated nonincendive field wiring apparatus has designated associated nonincendive field wiring apparatus connections for nonincendive field wiring apparatus and may also have connections for other electrical apparatus.

Attachment Plug (Plug Cap) (Plug)

A device that, by insertion in a receptacle, establishes a connection between the conductors of the attached flexible cord and the conductors connected permanently to the receptacle.

Building Official

The government official appointed by the Secretary of the Department of Public Works and who is responsible for enforcing the provisions of the National Building Code of the Philippines (NBC) created under Presidential Decree 1096 (PD 1096) and its Implementing Rules and Regulations; and charged with the duties of issuing building permits, notices and certificates.

Automatic

Performing a function without the necessity of human intervention.

Bathroom

An area including a basin with one or more of the following: a toilet, a tub, or a shower.

Building Official, Office of the

The place of business of the Building Official where processing of permits, notices, certificates and other related documents are undertaken. Also referred to as OBO in this Code.

Battery System

Interconnected battery subsystems consisting of one or more storage batteries and battery chargers, and can include inverters, converters, and associated electrical equipment.

Bonded (Bonding)

Connected to establish electrical continuity and conductivity.

Licensed Electrical Practitioner

A licensed electrical practitioner employed in the Office of the Building Official responsible for overseeing electrical installations and equipment for compliance to provisions of the Philippine Electrical Code, Part 1 (PEC1), and for the approval of electrical permits and certificates issuances.

Bonding Conductor or Jumper

A reliable conductor to ensure the required electrical conductivity between metal parts required to be electrically connected.

Bonding Jumper, Equipment

The connection between two or more portions of the equipment grounding conductor.

Bonding Jumper, Main

The connection between the grounded circuit conductor and the equipment grounding conductor at the service.

Bonding Jumper, System

The connection between the grounded circuit conductor and the equipment grounding conductor at a separately derived system.

Branch Circuit

The circuit conductors between the final overcurrent device protecting the circuit and the outlet(s).

Cable Routing Assembly

A single channel or connected multiple channels, as well as associated fittings, forming a structural system that is used to support and route communications wires and cables, optical fiber cables, data cables associated with information technology and communications equipment, Class 2, Class 3, and Type PLTC cables, and power-limited fire alarm cables in plenum, riser, and general-purpose applications.

Branch Circuit, Appliance

A branch circuit that supplies energy to one or more outlets to which appliances are to be connected and that has no permanently connected luminaires that are not a part of an appliance.

Charge Controller

Equipment that controls dc voltage or dc current, or both, and that is used to charge a battery or other energy storage device.

Combustible Gas Detection System

A protection technique utilizing stationary gas detectors in industrial establishments.

Communications Equipment

The electronic equipment that performs the telecommunications operations for the transmission of audio, video, and data, and includes power equipment (e.g., dc converters, inverters, and batteries), technical support equipment (e.g., computers), and conductors dedicated solely to the operation of the equipment.

Circuit Breaker

A device designed to open and close a circuit by nonautomatic means and to open the circuit automatically on a predetermined overcurrent without damage to itself when properly applied within its rating.

Adjustable (as applied to circuit breakers)

A qualifying term indicating that the circuit breaker can be set to trip at various values of current, time, or both, within a predetermined range.

Composite Optical Fiber Cable

A cable containing optical fibers and current-carrying electrical conductors.

Instantaneous Trip (as applied to circuit breakers)

A qualifying term indicating that no delay is purposely introduced in the tripping action of the circuit breaker.

Concealed

Rendered inaccessible by the structure or finish of the building. Wires in concealed raceways are considered concealed, even though they may become accessible by withdrawing them.

Inverse Time (as applied to circuit breakers)

A qualifying term indicating that the circuit breaker trips after a time delay that is inversely proportional to the amount of overcurrent.

Qualifying Term

Indicating that there is purposely introduced a delay in the tripping action of the circuit breaker, which delay decreases as the magnitude of the current increases.

Conductive Optical Fiber Cable

A factory assembly of one or more optical fibers having an overall covering and containing non-current-carrying conductive member(s) such as metallic strength member(s), metallic vapor barrier(s), metallic armor or metallic sheath.

Covered

Is parang pinatungan lang something pero dili sya insulated.

Nonadjustable (as applied to circuit breakers)

A qualifying term indicating that the circuit breaker does not have any adjustment to alter the value of current at which it will trip or the time required for its operation.

Conductor, Bare

A conductor having no covering or electrical insulation whatsoever.

Setting (of circuit breakers)

The value of current, time, or both, at which an adjustable circuit breaker is set to trip.

Conductor, Covered

A conductor encased within material of composition or thickness that is not recognized by this Code as electrical insulation.

Clothes Closet

A nonhabitable room or space intended primarily for storage of garments and apparel.

Conductor, Insulated

A conductor encased within material of composition and thickness that is recognized by this Code as electrical insulation.

Coaxial Cable

A cylindrical assembly composed of a conductor centered inside a metallic tube or shield, separated by a dielectric material, and usually covered by an insulating jacket.

Conduit Body

A separate portion of a conduit or tubing system that provides access through a removable cover(s) to the interior of the system at a junction of two or more sections of the system or at a terminal point of the system.

Combustible Dust [as applied to Hazardous (Classified) Locations]

Dust particles that are 500 microns or smaller (i.e., material passing a U.S. No. 35 Standard Sieve as defined in ASTM E11-2015, Standard Specification for Woven Wire Test SieveCloth and Test Sieves), and present a fire or explosion hazard when dispersed and ignited in air.

Connector, Pressure (Solderless)

A device that establishes a connection between two or more conductors or between one or more conductors and a terminal by means of mechanical pressure and without the use of solder.

Continuous Load

A load where the maximum current is expected to continue for 3 hours or more.

Device

A unit of an electrical system, other than a conductor, that is intended to carry or control but not utilize electric energy.

Control Circuit

The circuit of a control apparatus or system that carries the electric signals directing the performance of the controller but does not carry the main power current.

Disconnecting Means

A device, or group of devices, or other means by which the conductors of a circuit can be disconnected from their source of supply.

Dust-Ignitionproof [as applied to Hazardous (Classified) Locations]

Equipment enclosed in a manner that excludes dusts and does not permit arcs, sparks, or heat otherwise generated or liberated inside of the enclosure to cause ignition of exterior accumulations or atmospheric suspensions of a specified dust on or in the vicinity of the enclosure.

Control Drawing [as applied to Hazardous (Classified) Locations]

A drawing or other document provided by the manufacturer of the intrinsically safe or associated apparatus, or of the nonincendive field wiring apparatus or associated nonincendive field wiring apparatus, that details the allowed interconnections between the intrinsically safe and associated apparatus or between the nonincendive field wiring apparatus or associated nonincendive field wiring apparatus.

Dusttight

Enclosures constructed so that dust will not enter the enclosing case under specified test conditions.

Controller

A device or group of devices that serves to govern, in some predetermined manner, the electric power delivered to the apparatus to which it is connected.

Cooking Unit, Counter-Mounted

A cooking appliance designed for mounting in or on a counter and consisting of one or more heating elements, internal wiring, and built-in or mountable controls.

Duty, Continuous

Operation at a substantially constant load for an indefinitely long time.

Duty, Intermittent

Operation for alternate intervals of (1) load and no load; or (2) load and rest; or (3) load, no load, and rest.

Duty, Periodic

Intermittent operation in which the load conditions are regularly recurrent.

Duty, Short-Time

Operation at a substantially constant load for a short and definite, specified time.

Duty, Varying

Operation at loads, and for intervals of time, both of which may be subject to wide variation.

Copper-Clad Aluminum Conductors

Conductors drawn from a copper-clad aluminum rod with the copper metallurgically bonded to an aluminum core, where copper forms a minimum of 10 percent of the cross-sectional area of a solid conductor or each strand of a stranded conductor.

Cord Connector [as applied to Hazardous (Classified) Locations]

A fitting intended to terminate a cord to a box or similar device and reduce the strain at points of termination and may include an explosionproof, a dust-ignitionproof, or a flameproof seal.

Dwelling Unit

A single unit, providing complete and independent living facilities for one or more persons, including permanent provisions for living, sleeping, cooking, and sanitation.

Cutout Box

An enclosure designed for surface mounting that has swinging doors or covers secured directly to and telescoping with the walls of the enclosure.

Dwelling, One-Family

A building that consists solely of one dwelling unit.

Dead Front

Without live parts exposed to a person on the operating side of the equipment.

Dwelling, Two-Family

A building that consists solely of two dwelling units.

Dwelling, Multifamily

A building that contains three or more dwelling units.

Demand Factor

The ratio of the maximum demand of a system, or part of a system, to the total connected load of a system or the part of the system under consideration.

Effective Ground-Fault Current Path

An intentionally constructed, low-impedance electrically conductive path designed and intended to carry current underground-fault conditions from the point of a guard fault on a wiring system to the electrical supply source and that facilitates the operation of the overcurrent protective device or ground-fault detectors.

Explosionproof Equipment

Equipment designed to contain an explosion and prevent the ignition of surrounding flammable materials.

Explosion-Proof Equipment

Equipment enclosed in a case that is capable of withstanding an explosion of a specified gas or vapor that may occur within it and of preventing the ignition of a specified gas or vapor surrounding the enclosure by sparks, flashes, or explosion of the gas or vapor within.

Effective Power Production and Distribution Network

Power production, distribution, and utilization equipment and facilities, such as electric utility systems that deliver electric power to the connected loads, that are external to and not controlled by an interactive system.